Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Today is Pi Day, the third month and 14th day, signifying of course 3.14, the first digits in the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi has now been calculated to 22 trillion digits, by a computer, of course, although Chao Lu pi to 67,890 decimal places, which took him 24 hours and[…]
The tragic loss of beauty in liturgy we should not dismiss lightly, for if there is one thing we can glean from Scripture, and from the Church’s two millennia of Tradition, it is that we should offer the very best to God in our worship of Him; yet what we often experience, sadly, is tawdriness and[…]
Felix Sarda y Salvany In 1886, during the papacy of Leo XIII, a remarkable book titled Liberalism Is a Sin was written by the Spanish priest Felix Sarda y Salvany (1844 –1916). The main thrust of Sarda’s book was not to indict liberalism in politics so much as liberalism in theology and morals. Having created[…]
Adam Child’s playful take on women’s dressing, or dressing down, provides a humorous side to the debate on modesty, which does play in some way into the #MeToo movement. We are fallen creatures, with what the Catechism calls ‘concupiscence’; that is, our passions move in ways contrary to reason, at times violently so, without our[…]
When I first left my home in the warm peninsula of southern Ontario to pursue a post-secondary education nothing could have prepared me for the extraordinary cultural hiatus I was to experience. A small institution, isolated in a northern part of the province (editor’s note: the school is in fact still well in ‘southern’ Ontario,[…]
Saint John of God, whose baptismal name was João Duarte Cidade, lived an incredible life: on the streets alone soon after the tender age of eight, followed by the life of soldier and wanderer, through Europe, the Middle East, Spain, eventually ending upon amongst the poorest of the poor, apparently vocation-less at 42, when God[…]
It would be remiss of me not to mention today also as the memorial of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, the account of whose martyrdom in 203, under the reign of Setpimius Severus is one of the most vivid and authentic, penned in the first person by none other than Perpetua herself. Both Perpetua (a noblewoman)[…]
Saint Thomas Aquinas died on this day, March 7, 1274, at the Cistercian monastery of Fossanuova in Italy, between Naples and Rome (where there is now a street named after him) on his way to the Second Council of Lyons, in southwestern France. His death, like his life, was eminently holy and simple, offering his[…]
I have an article published this morning in Crisis, on the necessity of reappropriating and reinstantiating beautiful liturgical music, which the Church describes as her greatest artistic treasure. What we hear in all too many parishes is, quite simply, unfitting for house of God and public, liturgical worship. As always, comments, critical or otherwise, are[…]
The errors of communism, as Our Lady predicted, continue their long, slow march throughout the world, but sometimes this march takes a sharp turn for the worse. Witness South Africa, whose Marxist parliament under new president Cyril Ramaphosa recently voted to usurp all the land of ‘white farmers’ without compensation, giving said land, one may[…]
